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Another award!!! I’d like to thank T. Jay Santa Ana (artbyanto.com) very very very much for nominating me for The One Lovely Blog Award + The Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Be sure to check out T. Jay’s awesome graphic design and illustration work. 🙂
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Rules
- Thank the person who nominated you.
- Add The One Lovely Blog Award + The Very Inspiring Blogger Award to your post.
- Share 7 things about yourself.
- Pass the award on to 10 nominees.
- Include this set of rules.
- Inform your nominees by posting a comment on their blogs.
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Facts
Check out these other posts for more than seven facts about me!
- A Bit More About Me
- Very Inspiring Blogger Award
- Reader Appreciation Award
- Liebster Award
- The Beautiful Blogger Award
Instead of writing another “7 things about yourself” list, I thought I’d share my 7 top favorite obscure films list (in no particular order)!
I’d be interested to know how obscure these films really are (as in if any of my followers/readers have ever seen these).
P. S. I’m afraid a number of them might possibly star Laurence Harvey, aha ha ha. Threw in a few Japanese titles as well.
- I Am a Camera (1955)
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
- The Cat’s Meow (2001)
- Life at the Top (1965)
- The Clone Returns Home/Kurôn wa Kokyô wo Mezasu (2008)
- Confessions/Kokuhaku (2010)
- The Ceremony (1963)
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Over the course of researching and writing my first full-length screenplay entitled Who is Laurence Harvey? (about the forgotten international film star Laurence Harvey [1928 – 1973]), I developed a bit of a hobby.
“What hobby?” you ask.
Collecting every single last image of Laurence Harvey I can find on the internet, that’s what!!
I currently have over 450 images saved in my Laurence Harvey folder.
Here, I thought I’d share some of my favorite images. These are the images that I hope will one day influence the production/design of this film.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these images!!
(Click on images to enlarge.)

Autographed photo of Laurence Harvey

Laurence Harvey as Romeo (1954)

Laurence Harvey in “Room at the Top” (1959)

Laurence Harvey in “The Alamo” (1960)

Laurence Harvey and Elizabeth Taylor in “BUtterfield 8” (1960)

Laurence Harvey in “The Long and The Short and The Tall” (1961)

Laurence Harvey at home.

Laurence Harvey in “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962)

Laurence Harvey and France Nuyen in “A Girl Named Tamiko” (1962)

Laurence Harvey and Sarah Miles in “The Ceremony” (1963)

Laurence Harvey in “Life at the Top” (1965)

Laurence Harvey at the Oscars.

Laurence Harvey and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of “Night Watch” (1973)

For more information about Who is Laurence Harvey?, check out this post. Or visit my homepage.
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Ideas for future projects…
The following is a list of various works (literature, poetry, art, etc.) that have influenced me and may influence new projects in the future, as well as ideas that have been churning around in my head.
Also, this is a sort of semi-reading list for books I would like to read and re-read. Some advice for anyone interested in reading these books: Project Gutenberg, Bartleby.com, etc. are WONDERFUL for literature written in English. But if you are interested in Dumas, Hoffmann, Pushkin, or any other author who did not write in English, I would highly recommend Penguin Classics — their English translations are always BRILLIANT (although the very best, of course, is to read a work in its original language — for instance, I happen to hate Dazai Osamu and Yoshimoto Banana translated [no offense to the translators, it’s not their fault], but I absolutely love them in the original Japanese)!!
In no particular order…
- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin: about to read.
- The Tales of Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann: must read.
- The Moonstone, etc. by Wilkie Collins: must re-read/read.
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: have read.
- The works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: have read/must read.
- Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem: have read/would like to continue to research.
- Philipp Otto Runge, Romantic German painter: have researched.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, The Black Tulip, etc. by Alexandre Dumas: have read.
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson: must read.
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey: must read.
- John Singer Sargent and the Portrait of Madame X: have seen at the Met/must research.
- Lord Byron (“The Limping Devil”), Mary Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley — the origins of Frankenstein: have read/must research.
- Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: have researched/would like to continue to research.
- Franz Liszt (as a young piano teacher): would like to continue to research.
- Béla Bartók (and his research into folk music): would like to continue to research.
- David Popper (Bohemian cellist and my all-time favorite composer): need to find more information about him!
- The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden by Federico García Lorca: have read.
- A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg: have read.
- The works of Christopher Isherwood: have read.
- The Quiet American and The Third Man by Graham Greene: love movies/must read.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Constant Gardener by John le Carré: love movies/must read.
- Hollywood stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Sessue Hayakawa, etc.
- The Stones Cry Out by Okuizumi Hikaru: have read.
- The works of Dazai Osamu: have read/must read.
- The works of Ibuse Masuji: must read.
- The works of Mishima Yukio: have read.
- The works of Kenzaburo Oe: have read.
- Okinawan literature: have read.
- Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor: have researched.
- Hendrik Goltzius, the Dutch engraver: have researched/would like to continue to research.
- Morris Louis, American Color Field painter: have researched/would like to continue to research.
- Jean Cocteau, French filmmaker: would like to research.
- Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer: would like to research.
- The operas of Jacques Offenbach, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, etc.
- …?
To be continued…!
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